AGENTLINK UPDATE # 72 – 5th May March 2005 This is the email newsletter of AgentLink -- Europe's Co-ordination Action for Agent-based Computing. The AgentLink WWW site is http://www.agentlink.org IMPORTANT: Please take the time to ensure that every member of your group receives a copy of the AgentLink update. If you have a group mail alias, why not get this alias to be added to the mailing list? To subscribe/unsubscribe to this mailing list simply send a request to coordinator@agentlink.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * AgentLink Roadmap Consultation Report * EASSS 05 - 7th European Agent Systems Summer School - Announcement (18th-22nd July, 2005 - Utrecht, The Netherlands) - Student Session Call for Papers * Standards Activities: - 14th Global Grid Forum (GGF14) meeting (26th-29th June, 2005 - Chicago, IL) - Digital Media Project Announcements - News from the FIPA world * AgentLink III: Call for Research Event Support Proposals will close October 2005 * AgentLink III Third Technical Forum (AL3-TF3) – Call for TF Groups (15-17 September 2005 - Budapest, Hungary) * Related EU Project Activities - First SEKT Summer school on the Semantic Web (SEKT) (27 June-5 July, 2005 - Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Reasoning Web Summer School (REWERSE) (25-29 July, 2005 - University of Malta) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * AgentLink Roadmap Consultation Report As part of its roadmapping activities, AgentLink has produced a consultation report outlining the current situation with respect to the status of agent technologies and indicating key directions for future development of the field. The document is an interim report that seeks to draw inputs from the community as part of the detailed development of the AgentLink III roadmap. You can find the report at http://www.agentlink.org/roadmap Now, we are seeking inputs from the general community as listed below. Please take some time to contribute to the specific requests for information and help make the roadmap a valuable resource. 1. Specific comments and constructive criticism of the Consulation Report. 2. Contribution to roadmapping for sub-areas within the field of agent-based computing. 3. Identification of relevant national and international activites to map current efforts, including but not limited to: a) standards activities; b) relevant projects; c) key events; and d) deployed systems and infrastructure. 4. Please help us with the roadmapping process by completing the questionnaire attached. The questionnaire can also be downloaded at: http://www.agentlink.org/roadmap/RMQuestionnaire.doc You may also take part in our survey concerning current and future prospects for agent technology at MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "http:www.agentlink.org" claiming to be http:www.agentlink.org/survey We expect a more substantial version of the roadmap to be available in the summer of 2005, taking into account the inputs received. You can help by providing information in the above areas, and mailing them to Michael Luck at mml@ecs.soton.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * EASSS - AgentLink Summer School (18th-22nd July, 2005 - Utrecht, The Netherlands) AgentLink is proud to present the 7th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS05) Utrecht, The Netherlands, 18 - 22 July 2005. EASSS05 consists of a mixture of introductory and advanced courses delivered by internationally leading experts in the agent field, and it covers the full range of theoretical and practical aspects of agent-based computing. This year's EASSS offers more courses than ever, including practical programming sessions and a course with robots. EASSS05 is open to anyone from research or industry, both AgentLink members and non-members alike. A registration fee will be charged to cover costs, but some support will also be available for PhD students. There are several cheap connections from European cities to Utrecht, and EASSS05 will be held one week before AAMAS05! Since we anticipate popular demand for this edition of EASSS, attendees are advised to book local accommodation as soon as possible. For more information and registration: http://www.agentlink.org/happenings/easss/2005/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * EASSS - Student Session Call for Papers All registered participants are cordially invited to participate in the student session of EASSS05. The student session is designed to encourage student interaction and feedback from the tutors. Accepted submissions will be assigned either a 10 or 15 minute slot for presentation. Typically a presentation will either detail the intended approach to a problem or ask a specific question, directed at the audience. By providing the students with a conference-like setup, both in the presentation and in the review process, students have the opportunity to prepare their own submission, go through the selection process (peer review) and possibly present their work to themselves and their interests to their fellow students as well as internationally leading experts in the agent field, both from the theoretical and the practical sector. As the goal is to provide the speakers with constructive feedback and a means to be introduced to the community, the competitive elements often found in conferences (best paper award, best presentation award) are intentionally omitted. The peer review will focus not on the magnitude of the presented material but on the clarity of the formulated material or whether or not the posed question is of relevance to a majority of students. Giving a good presentation is a difficult task, practising it is the benefit of this session. The extend to which the audience has understood the details should be the criterion by which the presentations are judged. Deadlines June 23rd (Thursday) : Submission (23:59 GMT) July 5th (Tuesday) : Notification to authors July 10th (Sunday) : Submission of camera ready copy (23:59 GMT) July 20th (Wednesday) : Student Session Submission Details Submissions should be - between 1/2 and 2 pages maximum. - state the author(s), their affiliation and their current status. - clearly stating the posed question or the proposed approach, as well as outlining the problem at hand. - give a few references to both the standard literature and specific relevant publications (possibly your own). - in either .dvi, .pdf or .ps format (.doc >>(<< MS Word) will be accepted as submission but must be in one of these formats for the final version). - student work at student level. - send by email to hanno@csc.liv.ac.uk (subject "EASSS05"). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Standards Activities: - 14th Global Grid Forum (GGF14) meeting (26th-29th June, 2005 - Chicago, IL) The primary focus of GGF14 will be the Working and Research Group sessions. Groups will focus on the continued development of shared approaches, grid specifications and best practices for grids. Several critical drafts will be discussed and advanced toward publication during this event. In addition to these group sessions, GGF will offer a series of 30-60 minute invited talks and panels on the current and future status of Grids in different communities such as sectors of research (e.g., Astronomy) and industry (e.g, Telecommunications). New areas such as education are also solicited. This "community track" seeks to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in GGF. Both new and existing communities are encouraged to submit a brief abstract for presentation in this community track. GGF14 attendees will gain unique insights from applications and technology experts discussing innovative approaches to deploying and using grids. A community track overview document and slides will be posted on the GGF14 website. GGF also welcomes proposals for traditional workshops to be held at GGF14. Proposals will be evaluated by essentially the same process (GROC) as in previous GGF meetings. Please email communities@ggf.org for more information if you are interested in proposing a GGF14 Workshop. Further details will be available soon from: http://www.gridforum.org/ggf_events_next.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Standards Activities: - Digital Media Project Announcements The 6th General Assembly (GA06) of the Digital Media Project (DMP) has approved a set of documents providing an Interoperable DRM Platform (see http://www.dmpf.org/project/ga06/idp-1.html). While Digital Rights Management is needed by many industries, interoperability is a key requirement for its broad deployment and acceptance. DMP is happy to offer the first DRM specifications providing interoperability within and across value chains. GA06 has also issued a Call for Contributions on “Mapping of Traditional Rights and Usages to the Digital Space” (see http://www.dmpf.org/project/ga06/TRUCfC.htm). This Call invites responders to join in the development of interoperable DRM supporting Traditional Rights and Usages, offering businesses, users and society enhanced experiences that walled gardens of DRM have proved unable to provide. Deadline for responses is 15th of July 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Standards Activities: - News from the FIPA world The Foundation for Intelligent and Physical Agents, FIPA, was formed in 1996 to produce software standards for heterogeneous and interacting agents and agent-based systems. When considering the body of standards that FIPA has produced (see http://www.fipa.org), it is clear that FIPA has achieved this goal. However, it is now time to move standards for agents and agent-based systems into the wider context of software development in general. In short, agent technology needs to interwork with non-agent technologies as a matter of course. In this perspective, the IEEE Computer Society has invited FIPA to become part of its family of standards committees (http://www.computer.org/standards/). In March 2005, the FIPA Board of Directors presented this opportunity to the entire FIPA membership, who unanimously voted to join the IEEE Computer Society. FIPA will soon be the eleventh standards committee in the IEEE and will be known as the FIPA Standards Committee. This transition will coincide with the closure of FIPA as a Swiss-based organization. The IEEE FIPA Standards Committee will act as a self-organizing body with its own policies, procedures, dues structures, and bank account within the IEEE. The IEEE Computer Society will provide the umbrella organization, website maintenance, voting support, and all the other benefits that a large standards organization provides. The FIPA Board of Directors welcomes comments, suggestions and expressions of interest to join the IEEE FIPA Standards Committee. For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the FIPA Board of Directors at: board@fipa.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AgentLink III: Call for Research Event Support Proposals will close October 2005 The Agentlink III project is committed to supporting European Research activities in the area of Agent Technology and under its research coordination action has been providing various types of support for research and scientific events related to Agent technology. The objective of this support is to pump-prime research in strategically important areas, support emerging new areas, encourage inter-disciplinary links and support access to leading events in particular for students from under-resourced regions. Because the AgentLink III project ends in December 2005, we will not be able to fund events which will take place after 30 November 2005. Applications for financial support for these events will only be accepted up to 30 October 2005. Further information on event support can be found at: http://www.agentlink.org/activities/eventsupport/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * AgentLink III Third Technical Forum (AL3-TF3) (15-17 September 2005 - Budapest, Hungary) http://www.agentlink.org/activities/al3-tf/tf3/ Call for Technical Forum Groups The AgentLink III (AL3) Coordination Action is a successor to AgentLink II, the IST-funded Network of Excellence for agent-based systems, first established in August 2000. Agent-based systems are one of the most vibrant and important areas of research and development to have emerged in information technology in the last decade, and underpin many aspects of the broader IST FP6 programme. Agents represent the most important new paradigm for software development since object-orientation, and are likely to play a crucial role within several advanced application domains, such as Ambient Intelligence, Grid Computing, Electronic Business, the Semantic Web, Bioinformatics, as well as monitoring and control, resource management, and space, military, and manufacturing applications. AL3 aims to act as a unifying focus for agent-based activities in these different domains. The intended target audience comprises academic, research, and industrial organisations throughout the European Union and its Associated States engaged in agent-related research and development, and/or applications of agent technologies. Continuing the efforts of AgentLink and AgentLink II, the long-term aim of AL3 is to put Europe at the leading edge of international competitiveness in this increasingly important area. Along this line, AL3 aims at providing a widely known, high-quality European forum in which current issues, problems, and solutions in the research, development, and deployment of agent-based computer systems may be proposed, discussed, and resolved. Further information can be found at http://www.agentlink.org/ Technical Forum Groups (TFG) http://www.agentlink.org/activities/tfg/ One of the main activities of AgentLink and AgentLink II was to establish a number of special interest groups (SIGs) of researchers and developers sharing an interest in specific sub-areas of agent technology. SIGs were not established in a top-down manner: they were formed as a result of mostly unsolicited, refereed proposals submitted by members. However, the SIGs of AgentLink II largely continued in the same structure as those of AgentLink. In an effort to ensure effective and appropriate coverage, and to reflect the dynamism of the field, as well as to establish links to related disciplines, AL3 has established a periodic Technical Forum (AL3-TF), in which Technical Forum Groups (TFGs) will meet to discuss issues of key interest. The aims of the AL3 Technical Fora are: - to facilitate the dynamic development of communities around specific areas of strategic importance for European agent R&D, enabling them to share common problems, issues, and results in a manner that other meetings (e.g., academic workshops and conferences) do not allow for; - to respond dynamically to fast-changing developments; - to develop the AL3 roadmap updating results achieved in AgentLink II; - to provide the AL3 management committee with "bottom-up" input to its decision-making process, and hence ensure that the strategic direction of the Coordination Action is reactive to the needs of its members; - to establish links with related areas within computing as well as other research disciplines, such as economics and biology. TFGs are selected on a "per event" basis, in response to *bids* for each Technical Forum, with decisions being made in relation to links to related areas, industrial relevance and contribution to roadmapping. New areas that have no obvious forum for discussion of important issues are prioritised. More precisely, AL3 accepts and encourages TFG of the following sorts: - Application-area TFGs. These TFGs are intended to focus on promising application areas for agent technology. Apart from expanding upon AgentLink II's programme of application-area SIGs, TFGs are encouraged to find support from other (national and European) sources in addition to AL3, and to form collaborations for projects, particularly with respect to the IST programme. - Research-area TFGs. One of the key activities of AgentLink II was the instigation of a number of research SIGs. The corresponding TFGs in AL3 are collections of nodes, working on closely related underlying technologies. Particular emphasis here is given to establishing links with related areas and to other disciplines, in an effort to aggregate the critical mass of researchers across relevant domains. - Inter-network TFGs. One aspect of AgentLink II's activities that proved to be of great interest to the wider IT and telecommunications communities was a number of meetings held in cooperation with other European projects, such as the networks of excellence COMPULOGNET, ONTOWEB and I3NET. These meetings provided researchers and developers working in both communities with the opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and identify issues of common interest. This activity area is going to be continued and expanded in AL3, with links to related networks of excellence (such as OntoWeb II) and to related integrated projects. TFGs get several benefits from AL3. A number of participants per each TFG (depending on the number of TFGs at each Forum) get support for travel. Participants receive copies of handouts/proceedings, and organisers delegate provision of the meeting rooms, organisation of the event, etc., to AL3 staff. Also, after several years of successful work, AgentLink is a relevant scientific brand, and the whole AL3 structure strongly helps to spread scientific results of TFGs, e.g., through the AL3 Roadmap. Information about TFGs is made available via the AL3 Web site, with a web presence ensuring the life of the group beyond individual meetings. TFGs supported by AL3 are required, as a condition of funding, to write a report on the TFG meeting, and on activities preceding and resulting from the meeting, for subsequent inclusion in the AL3 newsletter and the AL3 Web site. Each TFG is required to have a chairperson (TFG Chair), responsible for liaising with AL3, managing the activities of the TFG, and responsible for all the commitments of the TFG. The Third AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF3) After the successful First (Rome, Italy, 30 June - 2 July 2004) and Second (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 28 February - 2 March 2005) AgentLink III Technical Fora, the Third AgentLink III Technical Forum (AL3-TF3) will take place in Budapest, Hungary, 15-17 September 2005. AL3-TF3 will host the meetings of the AL3 TFGs in form of either half-day or full-day events (longer durations to be negotiated on request). However, even though AL3-TF3 will represent the peak of the TFG's work, it will not exhaust their activities, which will instead have three main phases: 1) AL3-TF3 Preparation During this stage, TFG Chairs will be responsible to contact all the potential researchers, institutions and companies that may have an interest or a contribution to bring to the TFG. They will determine the *subthemes* that the TFG meeting will explore, and (most importantly) they will define the *format* the meeting will follow. In fact, the format is up to the TFG Chairs: it might be a traditional debate led by invited contributors or a mixture of presentations and discussions; but original formats or modalities are welcome -- such as special challenges, one-on-one debates, task-driven subgroup sessions -- whatever may help achieving the goals of the TFG. This will be negotiated with the Forum Chairs, and revised by the Scientific committee -- but mostly, original forms of interaction and discussion are encouraged indeed. The responsibility of the TFG Chair here is clearly to provide the Forum Chairs and AL3 Staff with a *TFG programme* in time before the meeting takes place. Also, any material to be distributed to AL3-TF3 attendees should be made available to the organisation in advance, so as to allow for production and delivery -- as well as its Web availability through the AL3 Web site. Otherwise, TFG Chairs will be asked to prepare and distribute the material by themselves. 2) AL3-TF3 Meeting During the official meeting, the TFG Chairs will be in charge of conducting the meeting, enabling and promoting the active contribution of all the participants, and driving the TFG's work towards the achievement of the TFG's goals -- this, as much as possible, without a priori limiting the free exchange of ideas and results among the participants. The meeting formats should be explored and exploited at their best, at the same time trying to avoid rigidity, that may potentially prevent some unanticipated novel results to emerge. At the end of the TFG meetings, global AL3-TF3 meetings will take place, where Forum Chairs will provide a general overview of the Technical Forum, while the TFG Chairs will be asked to report briefly on their TFG's activities and perspectives. 3) AL3-TF3 Post-production After the event, the TFG chairs will summarise the proceedings of the event for both the TFG and the wider AL3 community. This will consist of (at least): - providing all the materials used/produced by participants during the meeting, to be published on the AL3 Web site - writing a *TFG report* within two weeks after the meeting, that should provide a veracious account of the event, and summarise the most relevant contributions and results achieved. Also, some reporting about prospective activities should be included. Such a report should work as both an input for AL3 roadmap and Management Committee, and a potential report for AgentLink News. Such a contribution might be produced by TFG Chairs alone, but also (preferably) with the active contributions by TFG's most active participants. - possibly, pointing out relevant contributions that could become stand-alone research contributions for AgentLink News, and also potential candidate papers for special issues of agent-related journals. Also, independent follow-ups promoted by TFG Chairs in terms of volumes or publications of any sort are welcomed and encouraged. The extension of a TFG's activity after AL3-TF3 will depend on the success of the event, the relevance of continuation of activity, and also on the ability of the TFG Chairs to properly fulfil all responsibilities and commitments in AL3-TF3. Proposals for successful TFGs from the First AgentLink Technical Forum can be re-issued following the same procedures as the other proposals, and will be accepted provided that motivations for prosecution of activity are demonstrated. Proposals for new TFGs are very much encouraged, and all the AL3-TF3 staff members are ready to try hard to find space, time, and resources for each good TFG proposal that will come in. Proposal Submission Guidelines http://www.agentlink.org/activities/al3-tf/tf3/submission.html Proposals for holding a TFG at the Third AgentLink III Technical Forum should be sent to the Forum Chairs through the AL3 Web site, providing: - Title of the proposed TFG - Specification whether this is - a new TFG; - an already established one (from AL3-TF1 and/or AL3-TF2); - a new TFG derived from an old one - Scope and Aims of the TFG activity (short description, max. 200 words) - TFG Category (application-area / research-area / inter-network) - TFG Chair: Name, affiliation and mail/Web address of the proposed TFG Chairperson - Other TFG Promoters: Names, affiliations and mail/Web addresses of at least three other researchers committing to participate in the TFG activity (from at least two different institutions, both different from the TFG Chair's) - Related Activities, Connections & Perspectives of TFG Chair & Promoters: Why should the proposers be the ones to take care of such a TFG? (a couple of paragraphs and if possible the URLs of the personal Web pages of each proposer) - Estimation of Potential Interest: - Who is going to be interested -- individuals, groups and institutions? - "Outline plan" of TFG activities: - What kinds of actions will be pursued before, during and after the TFG meeting at AL3-TF3? - Intended Format of the TFG meeting at AL3-TF3: Duration, activities, role of the Chair, expected outcomes, etc. - Procedures to produce the deliverables after AL3-TF3 Proposals will be reviewed by at least two members of the Scientific Committees, and accepted / rejected by the Forum Chairs on behalf of the AL3 Management Committee. FAQ Q: Which benefits will TFGs get from AL3? A: The main benefits are: - support for travel for a number of participants per TFG - copies of handouts/proceedings, etc. - provision of the meeting rooms, organisation of the event, etc. - AL3 branding - spreading of the scientific results of the TFG work Q: Will TFGs' life span over the whole AL3 duration? A: In principle, no. TFG's proposals are submitted in response to a single Technical Forum call, and their life matches the Technical Forum's one. But, successful TFGs may re-iterate the proposal to the subsequent Technical Forum, and could be accepted by the Scientific Committee and the Program Chairs, provided that there is a good reason to repeat the TFG meeting. Q: Should TFG Chair form an Organising Committee for the first proposal? A: In principle, this is not necessary. It can be easily done during the negotiation and preparation stages. Q: Is there any limit to the number of TFG proposals that a single researcher / group may submit to a Technical Forum call? A: In principle, no. A single researcher / group may participate / submit multiple proposals, and also present different proposals in response to two different Technical Forum calls. However, the SC and the PCs will ensure that the contributions of any proponent / participant will not exceed some reasonable limit. Q: Should TFG meeting follow a pre-fixed format? A: Not at all. As far as AL3-TF3 is concerned, the only "format" is either the half-day or full-day duration -- but, also this limit could be negotiated in case of need. Instead, TFGs and their Chair are required to commit to some task, as specified above. Q: "Original formats or modalities"? What does this mean, any examples? A: Possible formats to be used for TFGs might be: - Blue-sky brainstorming sessions exploring new fields of application or theory. - Cross-domain or cross-community events with mixed presentations from a range of stakeholders/communities to explore commonalities and potential joint-work. - Challenge events where particular frameworks, tools or methods are applied to sample problems to explore their utility, expressiveness or other properties: advancing the state of the art and understanding of technology application issues. - An intensive working event to unify models/events or theories in a particular domain - providing a basis for common terms of reference, structures and frameworks, identifying gaps in current knowledge. However we hope that the community will come up with further creative uses of the TFGs to push the research area further ahead! Location & CEEMAS 2005 http://www.ceemas.org/ceemas05/ AL3-TF3 will be both spatially and temporally co-located with the 4th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2005), also in Budapest, Hungary, 15-17 September 2005. CEEMAS 2005 is the fourth event in the CEEMAS series, whose growing success is making CEEMAS one of the most relevant international conferences in the agent field. Co-location will be handled by the organisers of both CEEMAS 2005 and AL3-TF3 so as to minimise significant thematic overlaps, and to maximise synergies between the two events. The two locations will be as near as possible, in order to make it easy for attendants of both events to follow the most relevant moments according to their own scientific interests. We therefore encourage prospective attendants of CEEMAS 2005 to take a close look at the AL3-TF3 activities, in order to find a fruitful way to actively participate. Also, we invite AL3-TF3 participants to register to CEEMAS 2005, and possibly find their way through the CEEMAS 2005 scientific program. More details on location will follow soon, and will be available through the AL3 Web site. Dates TFG Proposal Submission: 30 June 2005 TFG Preliminary Notification: 18 July 2005 AL3-TF3 Preliminary Programme: 31 July 2005 AL3-TF3 Takes Place: 15-17 September 2005 Contacts - Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, László Z. Varga (AL3-TF3 Forum Chairs) tf3-chair@agentlink.org - Andrea Omicini (AL3-WP5 "Technical Forum" Coordinator) wp5@agentlink.org, Andrea.Omicini@agentlink.org Organisation Forum Chair Paolo Petta (OFAI and Medical University of Vienna, Austria) Forum Co-chairs Andrea Omicini (Universita' di Bologna a Cesena) László Z. Varga (MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary) Forum Local Liasons Gusztav Hencsey (MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary) László Z. Varga (MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary) Magdolna Zsivnovszki (MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary) Forum Organisers Peter McBurney (University of Liverpool) Catherine Atherton (University of Liverpool) Scientific Committee (* to be confirmed, members to be added / removed) *Ivan Bratko (University of Ljubljana) * Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland) * Jacques Calmet (Universitat Karlsruhe) * Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR Roma, Italy) * Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) * Frank Dignum (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) * Barbara Dunin-Keplicz (Warsaw University, Poland) * Rino Falcone (ISTC/CNR Roma, Italy) * Matjaz Gams (University of Ljubljana) * Marie-Pierre Gleizes (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) * Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) * Manolis Koubarakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece) * Michael Luck (University of Southampton, UK) * Peter McBurney (University of Liverpool) * John-Jules Ch. Meyer (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) * Jean-Pierre Muller (CIRAD, France) * Pablo Noriega (IIIA, Spain) * Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Carlos, Madrid, Spain) * Terry Payne (University of Southampton) * Michal Pechoucek (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) * Stefan Poslad (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) * Alessandro Ricci (Universita' di Bologna a Cesena, Italy) * Giovanni Rimassa (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland) * Michael Rovatsos (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany) * Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool, UK) * Steven Willmott (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) * Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK) * Mirko Viroli (Universita' di Bologna a Cesena, Italy) * Franco Zambonelli (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Related EU Project Activities - First SEKT Summer school on the Semantic Web (SEKT) (27 June-5 July 2005 - Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) The first SEKT Summer school on the Semantic Web, will be held in conjunction with the EU PASCAL NoE sponsored ACAI05 Advanced Course on Knowledge Discovery School, and will include courses on Semantic Web Technologies, Knowledge Discovery in the Semantic Web, Information Extraction, etc. For details see http://www.ktschool.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Related EU Project Activities - Reasoning Web Summer School (REWERSE) (University of Malta 25-29 July 2005) The summer school "Reasoning Web 2005" provides an introduction into Semantic Web methods and issues with a particular focus on reasoning. It is primarily intended for young researchers from industry, PhD students, or postdoc researchers investigating the Semantic Web and related issues. The number of participants is limited. Participation depends on prior application and a reviewing process. For details see http://reasoningweb.org